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Alchemical Solutions [Worm/Exalted] Thread 16: Playful Parasites Pervert Prayer, Perpetuate Plagues

modrony said:
I doubt they are closed for Scion. If he can access them then they are accessible.
Not like essence respects things like 'physical proximity' anyhow.
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No I mean, Scion and Eden closed them off on purpose so other Earth's can't get to them. He did the saim thing with his real body I think.
 
Gromweld said:
Mass-Penetrating Scan costs 1 mote of essence, is for only ~5 seconds, and is limited to 9 total feet of matter you can penetrate. It's really good for when you've got something narrowed down, but simply spamming will not find you everything in a range as large as Philadelphia+Camden+outlying areas.

Also worth noting is that Iris is not 'leaking' Essence (since he's not using any), so there isn't an easy trail to follow that way. Still, we have a shit-ton of dice and auto-successes for tracking things down, so it's going to happen eventually.
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Ah, I was thinking less mass penetrating scan and more just having essence oculars up and trying to find Iris by the essence flair the moment we get into his range. I was under the impression that he would light up the area like a small star right through or at least around obstructions given how we needed the flash shutters when we tried to look at him. But I suppose that essence doesn't show up so much as light as it does a false color heat clouds.
 
noliar said:
We have already sounded out Chevalier and Dragon - neither are prepared to spend the week and take the disruption to their working relationships and Dragon isn't possible anyway. Which is fine, they are already powerful and influential allies.
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Chevalier's view may well change after this arc. Particularly if Who died because he couldn't perceive her, which he would have done if he could have perceived him.
 
Ridtom said:
No I mean, Scion and Eden closed them off on purpose so other Earth's can't get to them. He did the saim thing with his real body I think.
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That's what I thought you meant.
I doubt Scion would close off a potential world he could feed on. He blocked human travel, not himself.
If there is any interaction between the worlds the essence will bleed through. Probably even if there isn't.

Scion keeps a portal to his body constantly open in earth bet. That is what his avatar is.
 
noliar said:
I agree that Missy would make good Exalt in a few years but she's too young right now. For all that she's smart and has grown up fast there are real limits to her emotional maturity and life experience that would make accepting her her agreement to Exalt ethically iffy and hinder her in the performance of her duties. Not to mention the social and legal disability of childhood which she'll have for another 5 years. OOC she'd rock and she's a known character for Grom to write but IC converting anyone younger than Taylor would be problematic.
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thing is right now we have an excuse for exalting her, and HUSK-SCULPTING APPARATUS fixes the other problems.
 
I haven't caught up yet, but given that the voting is supposed to close soon:
[X] Free Hover Throne, but I stat it.

While I'm posting (note: I mostly binge-read this, which does affect my perceptions):
  • I didn't see Marrow kissing Bladedancer right then, but I did see it as a "fuck it, we're about to go into a potentially lethal situation" kind of move, and the buildup was definitely there.
  • The clarity thing didn't bug (no pun intended) me, not really, but it did go on long enough that I started to forget that this Taylor didn't always talk like that. That...might be for too long.
  • The accidental nudity spots are...irritating is too strong a word, even, but most of the time they are bleh. Sometimes they seem to have a narrative purpose, most of the time they appear to be just cheap laughs.
  • I rather like Aisha, actually, maybe better than canon here. Dunno, just felt like it ought to be said.
And now I'm out of time before the voting is supposed to close, even if it looks like it wouldn't be needed.
 
The fact that she's a kid and thinks like a kid would hinder her in her duties as an Alchemical with an urgent and politically complex imperative.
 
We may want to consider Bladedancer for exaltion again. She and Marrow worked together very well and she managed to keep up with an Exalted, imagine if she was exalted too.
 
noliar said:
The fact that she's a kid and thinks like a kid would hinder her in her duties as an Alchemical with an urgent and politically complex imperative.
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Vista mental maturity isn't a problem because she doesn't think like a kid(at least not most of the time), though her physical maturity is somewhat of a problem do to politics(and if we exalt her now we can sidestep atleast half the problems).

EDIT: also the potential Vista brings to the Assembly will likely be worth it.

Cassiemouse said:
I was considering this too. What caste do you see her as? Do you think she could fit in as a Moonsliver?
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I see her as an Orichalicum and there by competing with Armsmaster for the slot.
 
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1986ctcel said:
iirc Grom said something about it being possible for Shards to adapt to essence use early on anyway. Essence adaptation comes from constantly being exposed to essence and essence-based things like Weavers true form and the Shard desperately trying to make sense of it or something like that.
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Wait ... this makes Marrow's shed adamant very very important. If a tinker tries to build things using it long enough ... we get an Essence adapted Tinker.
 
modrony said:
That's what I thought you meant.
I doubt Scion would close off a potential world he could feed on. He blocked human travel, not himself.
If there is any interaction between the worlds the essence will bleed through. Probably even if there isn't.

Scion keeps a portal to his body constantly open in earth bet. That is what his avatar is.
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But they needed Sting to create the opening from the Avatar as the rest of that Universe was blocked off (even from a Multiversal laser).

I'm just trying to understand how this Essence spread works. We know there are other Alien races in the Multiverse, what happens to them? Or the other Entities?

Are only humans the ones who gain Exaltation? Does this kill the other innocent Aliens?
 
Cassiemouse said:
So! New list, maybe!
Orichalcum - Chavelier
Moonsliver - Bladedancer
Jade - Vista
Starmetal - Dragon.

Happiness. :)
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to bad things aren't that simple.
Chavelier could exalt as a Jade(there by locking out Vista), Dragon doesn't qualify(not human), and Bladedancer is very Orichalcum(not sure if she's qualified for Moonsilver).
 
If anyone was worried about Exalting a ward, now is really the best time. We can even make the argument that it will largely fix whatever was done to them in the first place. Also, we probably want to put a rush job on the rest of the Assembly. After this arc we need to push heavily on the PRT that we have proven ourselves trustworthy, and that they can kiss our collective's ass if they think they can stop us.

Vista is getting my vote for next Exalt.
 
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